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The area reaches into Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington and Waukesha counties.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Counties",[17],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":36},"table",[20,21,22],"County","Warehousing jobs","Share of the metro",[24,28,32],[25,26,27],"Milwaukee","4,244","51.4 percent",[29,30,31],"Waukesha","3,634","44.0 percent",[33,34,35],"Washington","384","4.6 percent","BLS QCEW 2025, counties with disclosed data.",{"h2":38,"blocks":39},"ZIP codes with the most warehouses",[40,61],{"t":18,"head":41,"rows":45,"caption":60},[42,43,44],"ZIP","Town","Establishments",[46,49,52,55,58],[47,25,48],"53209","7",[50,25,51],"53218","6",[53,54,51],"53051","Menomonee Falls",[56,25,57],"53207","5",[59,29,57],"53186","Census Bureau, ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023.",{"t":10,"text":62},"The five largest ZIP codes hold 29 establishments between them. Milwaukee (53209) leads with 7, 24.1 percent of the five.",{"h2":64,"blocks":65},"Reading the numbers",[66],{"t":67,"items":68},"ul",[69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90],"Milwaukee County has 4,244 warehousing jobs, 51.4 percent of the 8,262 in the Milwaukee area.","Waukesha County has 3,634 warehousing jobs, 44.0 percent of the 8,262 in the Milwaukee area, 610 fewer than Milwaukee.","Washington County has 384 warehousing jobs, 4.6 percent of the 8,262 in the Milwaukee area, 3,860 fewer than Milwaukee.","Milwaukee (53218) has 1 fewer warehousing establishments than Milwaukee (53209), 6 against 7.","Menomonee Falls (53051) has 1 fewer warehousing establishments than Milwaukee (53209), 6 against 7.","Milwaukee (53207) has 2 fewer warehousing establishments than Milwaukee (53209), 5 against 7.","Waukesha (53186) has 2 fewer warehousing establishments than Milwaukee (53209), 5 against 7.","Milwaukee County's 4,244 is 12.8 percent of all 33,054 warehousing jobs in Wisconsin.","Waukesha County's 3,634 is 11.0 percent of all 33,054 warehousing jobs in Wisconsin.","Washington County's 384 is 1.2 percent of all 33,054 warehousing jobs in Wisconsin.","ZIP 53209 in Milwaukee ranks number 1 of the five, with 7 warehousing establishments, 24.1 percent of their combined total and 1.40 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 53218 in Milwaukee ranks number 2 of the five, with 6 warehousing establishments, 20.7 percent of their combined total and 1.20 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 53051 in Menomonee Falls ranks number 3 of the five, with 6 warehousing establishments, 20.7 percent of their combined total and 1.20 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 53207 in Milwaukee ranks number 4 of the five, with 5 warehousing establishments, 17.2 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 53186 in Waukesha ranks number 5 of the five, with 5 warehousing establishments, 17.2 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.","Food manufacturing employs 11,405 in the area, 1.38 for every warehousing job.","Warehousing and storage employs 8,262 in the area (partial), 1.00 for every warehousing job.","Wisconsin's dairy product manufacturing employment, 28,840, is 3.49 times the Milwaukee area's warehousing jobs.","Wisconsin's fruit and vegetable preserving employment, 11,014, is 1.33 times the Milwaukee area's warehousing jobs.","Wisconsin's plastics product manufacturing employment, 29,656, is 3.59 times the Milwaukee area's warehousing jobs.","Wisconsin's food manufacturing employment, 81,993, is 9.92 times the Milwaukee area's warehousing jobs.","Green Bay, also in Wisconsin, has 584 warehousing jobs, 0.07 times Milwaukee's.",{"h2":92,"blocks":93},"Who ships pallets here",[94,109],{"t":18,"head":95,"rows":99,"caption":108},[96,97,98],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[100,104],[101,102,103],"Food manufacturing","11,405","1.38",[105,106,107],"Warehousing and storage","8,262 (partial)","1.00","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":110},"In Milwaukee-Waukesha, food manufacturing employs 11,405. The buyer here is usually a plant or sanitation manager, and the questions are cleaning, deck type and what paperwork comes with the model. It tends to lean on nestable or stackable that washes down, open or closed deck by product, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about resin and colourant documentation, since FDA does not approve pallet models.",{"h2":112,"blocks":113},"The empty return",[114,116],{"t":10,"text":115},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 29 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Milwaukee sent back 800 empty pallets in a week, that would be 23,200 pallets. 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See the [Wisconsin page](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fwisconsin) for the whole state.",{"t":10,"text":145},"Other metros in Wisconsin with their own page: [Green Bay](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fgreen-bay).",{"h2":147,"blocks":148},"Words on this page",[149],{"t":150,"rows":151},"dl",[152,155,158,161,164,167,170,173,176],[153,154],"Closed deck","A solid deck that keeps small items and torn bags from falling through and wipes clean on top.",[156,157],"Location quotient","A place's share of employment in a trade divided by the national share. Above 1 means the trade is more concentrated there than average.",[159,160],"Establishment","A single physical location where a business operates, such as one warehouse. A company with ten warehouses has ten establishments.",[162,163],"Beam span","The open gap between two rack beams. 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